Posted on 11/09/2006 2:14:10 AM PST by NapkinUser
President Bush yesterday said he will team up with Democrats to pass an immigration bill with a guest-worker program that his own party blocked this year, and his Republican opponents predicted a bloody intraparty fight but said they cannot stop such a bill from passing.
"We will fight it, we will lose. It will go to the Senate, it will pass. The president will sign it. And it will happen quickly because that's one thing they know they can pass," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, who had led the opposition to a guest-worker plan. "I am absolutely horrified by this prospect, but I have to face reality."
Mr. Bush supported a bipartisan majority in the Senate this year that passed a broad immigration bill including a new worker program and citizenship rights for millions of illegal aliens. But House Republicans blocked those efforts, calling them an amnesty, and instead forced through a bill to erect nearly 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Yep. :(
Amnesty is SUCH a bad idea.
The question, how important is his illegal alien plan to him?
Make the new Democrat congress go on record by voting for it so when the recently elected Democrats from Republican districts (like Lampson) run in 08 they can't claim to have been tough on immigration.
Bush offers Democrats perpetual power- a massive and rapid increase in the Democrat voting base.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I think The import and regularization of Democrat voters/illegal aliens has been Bush's highest priority since 2004 at least.
Lampson might as well vote for it. He is nothing more than a two year rental for the democrats, that seat is a sure republican pick-up in 2008 when a republican not named Tom DeLay is on the ballot (and no write-ins.)
What does he have to lose?
Mexico will win. (?)
Without firing a shot.
(But that's what you wind up with when you have a President getting policy advice from his housekeeper.)
Maybe ....
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Bush is safe. The democrats don't want Cheney as president.
By the time they take office he'll have less than 2 years left and they hate Cheney more than the President. There won't be an impeachment -- just lots of investigations and a couple resignations.
Bush finds a silver lining to the democRAT's win - another attempt at amnesty for all the illegals.
If Bush pulls that stunt, then I will no longer support him.
From his perseverance and bringing up this incendiary topic topic just before the election and on the day after the election debacle, it is appears that it is more important than almost anything else. He is rushing to import and legalize millions of dependent Democrat voters. As he moves left to make nice and govern with a Democrat Congress, we may wonder if he is still a Republican. It is going to be quite a ride.
If Bush pulls that stunt, then I will no longer support him.
...and?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
GW Bush is not, and never has been a conservative but he is well on his way to destroying the Republican Party through an ill-conceived and unnecessary foriegn war, idiotic uncontrolled domestic spending and an inane desire to please the political opposition while poking his finger in the eyes of the folks who supported him.
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